The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

Chris earned a Master of Education degree in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies from the University of Texas at Arlington, and was promoted into administration in Burleson ISD where he served as Academic Associate Principal at Centennial High School and Academic Associate Principal and Principal at STEAM Middle School.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

There has been a lot of hand-wringing about who will step up to meet the current needs of the skills shortage, and higher education has come under scrutiny, accused of not equipping students enough for the workforce. The University of Pennsylvania College of Liberal and Professional Studies recently began offering degrees online.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2016

Companies, unsurprisingly, are happy to help "prove" their effectiveness by publishing their own studies, sometimes in partnership with third-party research groups, to validate the impact of a product or service. Is your edtech efficacy study up to par?

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

By: Robyn Shulman, 2016. Fast Forward to 2016. These increases also include the fees that trail along with each program of study. Government can garnish wages and withhold tax refunds to meet student loan debt requirements. *If According to a recent study by NerdScholar.com, high school graduates in the U.S.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Lesson plans can be tailored to meet the learning needs of individual students. Phishing scams involve sending emails to a large group of people, such as a university’s student body, that appear to be from a reputable company or individual. According to the National Center for Education Statistics , a further 33.1%

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

In education, the shuttering of campuses and classrooms has been a windfall for purely digital companies—some of which are attracting plenty of private capital. Substitute teacher services company Swing Education is creating private homeschools. Even before then, the company had already taken a big hit. “We

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

Ara Austin And so starting around 2016, academic leaders in the university’s School of Molecular Sciences decided to experiment with offering rigorous biochemistry programs to remote students — complete with hands-on lab experiences. ASU couldn’t test this theory by delivering chemicals to students who study online.

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techlearning

JUNE 12, 2018

June 12, 2018—A new research study titled “ Ready Efficacy: Research on Ready Program Impact” demonstrates that Curriculum Associates’ Ready Mathematics and Ready Reading instruction for Grades 3–8 meets the federal funding requirements for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

What began with faculty interest in Stephenson’s Canadian company, Riipen, which connects students with class projects offered by actual businesses, led to conversations with a university accelerator that invests in edtech startups and connects them with faculty to launch pilot programs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

She has taught English Language Arts, Social Studies, Film, Journalism, and enjoys writing, illustrating, and cooking in her free time. We have to go back in and continually edit, check for accuracy, check for bias, make sure it's meeting and serving the needs of our students. So, for example, I know of an ed tech company in the U.K.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Once I was speaking in Virginia and some teachers told me I had to meet Pam, that she was a “teacher’s and student’s superintendent.” The state’s just reduced that to a requirement of one science, one social studies, one math, and a reading and writing assessment. Date: January 15, 2018. So, that’s kind of cool.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2019

Scheduling isn’t for the faint of heart, as anyone who’s tried to find a time and room for a team meeting well knows. That’s a tall order for any organization—and especially for a small company like Coursedog , which claims its scheduling software can help colleges and universities.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The proportion of high school graduates going directly to college has fallen from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2021. As for Brown, the student in San Antonio, she’s now in college studying toward a degree in digital marketing with plans to work in the entertainment industry. Air Force.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. Stride Inc.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Then, in 2016, the U.S. according to Todd Marshall, the university’s vice president for online and adult studies. Since 2016, Ashland has begun offering associate and bachelor degrees to its Pell recipients, and enrollment numbers have grown significantly, Marshall says. Several have started their own companies.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

Among those who graduated in the class of 2016, for example, the Economic Policy Institute found that the underemployment rate—when workers take on jobs lower than their skill sets or training—was 12.6 It turns out TalentWorks isn’t the first company to promise young job seekers a spot in the interview chair. percent, compared to 9.6

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Inside Higher Ed (IHE) recently issued their 2017 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology and we were excited about the big initial finding that more faculty are teaching online and that more are finding that online learning can meet the same outcomes. This is great, but unsurprising news.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In this still from a Byju's provided video, about 20,000 students pack the country's largest indoor arena for a math lesson from the company's CEO in 2013. The stunt came years before the CEO’s company, Byju’s, launched a learning app that would take the company to 35 million downloads, with 2.7 million) this fiscal year.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

Caffeinated founders paced the lobby in colorful T-shirts splattered with their company logos, polishing their pitches for their on-stage presentation and meetings with potential investors. What he has yet to find—but which he says Y Combinator would be willing to invest in—are companies that can help support and run new school models.

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techlearning

JULY 17, 2018

Almost 20 expert science publishers, including leading school science supplier Carolina Biological Supply Company working together with expert curriculum developers from the Smithsonian Science Education Center, welcomed the challenge. We were careful to meet every facet of CA NGSS.” Three-dimensional learning; 2.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

They started the company to solve a challenge that they both knew well: how to provide fast and actionable feedback to writing students. Ramirez also had studied computational linguistics. The company has also begun partnering with other companies such as Pearson and Microsoft. Ramireze said.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The company, which has offices in Paris and San Francisco, has raised $7 million to date. Amine Mezzour and Laurent Jolie were classmates at École Polytechnique in France, and later at UC Berkeley, where they studied computer science, engineering and entrepreneurship. The cash infusion will help expand the company’s U.S.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On September 21-23, 2016, Digital Promise and the U.S. Department of Education hosted the 2016 Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters16) in Providence, R.I., Sean Duffy (@dearmrduffy) September 23, 2016. rdaley0001 (@rdaley98) September 22, 2016. Joseph South (@southjoseph) September 22, 2016.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. Congregate, built by a Harvard student, is also trying to recreate the group-study feeling through virtual tables and classrooms.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

Alan November One problem is that companies are still making money off of selling those “$1000 pencils” as ways to improve productivity. So, can companies and educators co-exist peacefully in the world of edtech, while also working to redefine education? You go to these meetings, and people say, “Can I save money on textbooks?”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

In an interview with EdSurge, co-founder and CEO Austen Allred says the company plans to offer short-term programs in areas such as nursing—a field that is more regulated than the company’s existing training courses in coding, data science and web design. After that, students pay the company 17 percent of their income for two years.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Linda Edgecomb National studies bear out Edgecomb’s insights. Gehsmann, who is professor and chair at the Department of Literacy Studies, English Education, and History Education at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, says efficiency is one important piece of the silent reading and literacy development puzzle. Cue Reading Plus.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Across industries, companies are scrambling to keep up with the rapidly changing consumer tides—education isn’t immune to these changes. A school who fails to meet students’ digital expectations may be seen as inferior to a school who has developed their technological strategy. Digital fluency isn’t optional for schools; it’s a must.

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Smartphone Laptops Tablets Industry 75

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Credit: Tina Russell for The Hechinger Report Cory Orr’s accelerated training program meets seven hours a day, four days a week; it will take him 22 weeks instead of the usual two years to earn the certifications he needs to become an industrial maintenance technician. That’s much faster than the two years it often takes.

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Training Industry Report Company 138

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The district convened a series of meetings with teachers, school leaders, parents, city officials and community members to discuss what kind of educational system the community needed. Lindsay High School junior Gaby León said that other students she meets are fascinated when she tells them she’s never received a letter grade.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This profile is the second in a series from the EdSurge Research team, which has spent the past six months studying the market of service providers that support schools through the redesign process. The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles.

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100mentors

JANUARY 23, 2018

What organizations and individuals need is competence, which requires the abilities and skills to apply knowledge to accomplish tasks and solve problems” ( Toikkanen, 2016 ). If companies don’t even ask for test scores & GPAs from candidates anymore, then why is our whole education system measured by the success in examinations still?

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How To Education Company Assessment 60

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

She didn’t know where and she didn’t know what she planned to study, but she knew she wanted to leave, explore and earn her college degree. According to a 2015 study commissioned by the U.S. There are still a handful of timber companies in Onalaska, but the timber industry in Washington has been declining since World War II.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2017

In her last gig at Cornell University, Jess Snyder was a study abroad initiative coordinator, helping college students plan courses and trips in Southeast Asia. Carlson explains, “The university gets paid the tuition price, but in most cases the company picks up the majority of the bill.” Better retention. “In

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Kaplan Education Company Industry 76

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. Vrain Valley officials, paying students felt like a natural extension of the school days’ project-based learning and STEM studies.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

When edtech companies approach Kara Monroe, they all tout how their product is different from everybody else’s. Users can try the tool to evaluate courseware products that meet the framework’s definition. Researchers at SRI International were tasked with finding studies related to how the courseware products work.

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